How to Get Pregnant Fast

As a couple with a problem getting pregnant, it is of the utmost importance that you fully understand what it takes to achieve a conception.

At the time of ovulation, the fallopian tube will pick up the new egg after it burst out of the ovarian wall. The end of the fallopian tube, called the fimbria will grab the egg within seconds of its release and pull it properly inside the fallopian tube. If an is not fertilised it will only remain alive for a maximum of twenty four hours after which it dies and is absorbed by the body, or it disintegrates and comes out with the flow of the menstrual period. To put things in scale, the egg is about as big as the punctuation mark at the end of this sentence.

If on the other hand an egg does get fertilised it happens within a couple of hours after ovulation, and will happen while the egg is in the fallopian tube. Fertilisiation does not take place in the uterus, contrary to the widely held misconception that it does. The whole journey of the sperm to the egg in the fallopian tubes can take a good number of hours. The egg gets to the uterus after fertilisation by the help of little vibrating cilia, kind of like tiny hairs which line the inside of the fallopian tubes. It will take as much as a weeks time for the egg to finally get to the uterus and to start to burrow into the lining.

If you are experiencing a problem getting pregnant then you need to remember that there are three things that make a pregnancy happen, not just the sperm and egg – the third ingredient is a safe medium for them both to travel is, as without this conduit the vagina is a very hostile environment for the little sperms to tackle.

The medium required is a special type of cervical fluid, often referred to as ‘eggwhite cervical mucus’ because of its resemblance to eggwhites. This fertile fluid will afford the fragile sperm safety whilst it travels to the cervix and the waiting egg. This amazing fertile mucus is produced with rising levels of oestrogen in the first part of the cycle, and is at its best at the time of ovulation. Sperm can survive in the eggwhite mucus for as long as five days, so its not uncommon that a weekend romp can result in a mid-week conception!

The normal turn of events for a menstrual cycle is that the lining of the uterus disintegrates and is passed in the menstrual flow, which would be a total disaster for a pregnant body, so the amazing and ingenious body starts to work immediately to stop this from happening. When an egg that has been fertilised digs into the uterus the body immediately starts to produce a pregnancy hormone (called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) ) which will stop the process of disintegration and save the nutritious lining. The message this hormone sends is to the lining itself (the corpus luteum) and it simple tells it to stay alive. After a couple of months the corpus luteum is relieved of its job by the placenta, which will maintain the uterus lining and continue nourishing and providing oxygen to the foetus.

If you have ever received a false negative pregnancy test then it is because the test has been done too soon – these tests measure HCG in the blood or urine, and as it can sometimes take so long for an egg to burrow and start releasing the hormone, then the test will come back negative. If a woman is charting her cycle, and even charting her cervical fluids, then these kind of false-negative results are unlikely to occur, because she will know the rhythm of ovulation, and therefore will know more accurately when implantation has occurred.

When couples are having a problem getting pregnant it really is vital that they fully understand the process involved in getting pregnant, because unlike what our mums tell us as youths, for some getting pregnant is not that easy.